Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-11-24
MISCELLANEOUS.


robbed bank at Duluth, Mimi, of s24 ,OOO,
has been captured in Chicago. He con-
fessed and returned nearly all the money.
AN English steamer ut Nicolaleff, Russia,
recently collided with and sank the Rus
aboard the latter vessel were drowned.
AT Averill siding near Glynden Mimi,
the other night regular freight and a wild
stock train collided and five laborers re-
turning from Montana were killed, viz. ::
Charles Engel, Gotlieb Wolf, James Allen,
Albert Evans and Joseph Moore Engineer
O'Laughlin was blamed for the mishap.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
November IL showed an average decrease
of rs compared with the corresponding
week of last year. In New York the de-
crease was 145.
On the London Stock Exchange there
was fairly active business during the
week ended November II. Americans
were sought after and prices were steady.
On the German bourses stocks were de-
pressed and unsettled until the end OF the
week when an improvement was noted.
The Paris Bourse was depressed, Panama
shares being panicky.
The steamer Montmagny, which plies
between Quebec and st. Thomas, and for
the safety of which fears were recently en-
tertained, has arrived safely in port.
THE negro miners of Pocahontas, Va, re-
Gently refused to let the Hungarian miners
go to work and difficulty resulted. Sew
eral persons were hurt, but none were
killed. The Governor ordered troops to
the scene from Lynchburg and the dis
turbances ended.
A GREAT number Of persons followed the
remains of the executed Chicago Anarch-
lists to Waldheim cemetery on the 18TH
The principal address was made by
Captain Black, who was pacific in his re-
marks The other harangues were more
or less violent, but the proceedings ended
quietly on the approach of darkness
The cotton compress and 5000 bales of
cotton were burned at Greenville, Tenn,
on the 14th. Loss, S25O,OO0; partially in
sured.
STEPHEN H. CULVER and two Of his chill
dren were burned to death in their home in
Arundel County, Nd, recently.
The Third Avenue Railroad Company, of
New York, has borrowed S5,O00,00O on a
mortgage IF all its property, and will use
the money in changing from horse car to
cable system.
ter with the police on the 18th for the
possession Of Trafalgar square, the use of
which for public meetings had been for
hidden, 1t having been discovered that a
clause existed prohibiting such meetings
when the land was obtained. About 200
citizens and ~ police were injured.
A. s. HATCH, the prominent bear stock
operator, announced his failure on the New
York Stock Exchange on the 14th. He was
caught short in Reading and the boom in
that stock forced him TO the wall. 1t was
estimated his liabilities would amount to
81. 100000.
FIRE at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the night of
the 14th, destroyed the stables of the Van
derbilt avenue horse car line and other
property to the amount of $500, 600. One
hundred and tiftv-seven horses were
burned to death.
A NUMBER of boys were playing near an
embankment in a vacant lot on Drama
street, Philadelphia, the other day when a
huge bank of earth caved in and instantly
killed James Hurley, aged eleven, and his
brother John. aged two. Two or three
other boys were injured.
A FREIGHT engine on the New York Cen
trail railway exploded near Palatine Bridge,
hurled over the cars INTO the Mohawk river
and killed.
THE military and agricultural building
at Brussels burned recently, causing seri-
Gus loss.
WHAT is known as the drive well patent
which has been several times before the
United States Supreme Court and which
had always heretofore been sustained, has
been decla red invalid in an ODiuiOa by JUS
tice Blachford The court holds that the
fact, now made to appear for the first time
in the drive well litigation, that the inven-
ton was used in public at Cortlandt, n. Y,
| by others than Green, more than two
years before application for patent was
made, is fatal to the patents validity.
A DERRICK III Putnam quarry at West
Point, ten miles east Of Greensburg, Ind,
| fell the other morning, instantly killing
John DAVIS and Joseph Noher.